P&L once said there was a problem with baby name gamers putting lots of pictures in the game threads and linking from multiple other sites (they had problems from an IP perspective and had to take a lot of them down). I wonder if that compromised the security of the site and attracted a lot more spambot attention.

No, it's not the pictures, Blade, and we don't get a lot of spambots but hackers create false accounts and post spam. It's most annoying for us since we have to stop working on the site and deal with these pests. The most effective way to notify us of spam is to press that little triangle button with the exclamation point in the lower left of each post and then we can ban the spammer and blast all its spam at one time...

No, it's not the pictures, Blade, and we don't get a lot of spambots but hackers create false accounts and post spam. It's most annoying for us since we have to stop working on the site and deal with these pests. The most effective way to notify us of spam is to press that little triangle button with the exclamation point in the lower left of each post and then we can ban the spammer and blast all its spam at one time...